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x402: The New Crypto Payments Standard

Published: 2025-11-25
Status: Available | Analyzed

Predictions from this Video

Total: 7
Correct: 3
Incorrect: 0
Pending: 4
Unrated: 0
Prediction
Topic
Status
AI agents are predicted to influence or participate in $30 trillion of purchases by 2030.
"Analysts at Gartner expect so-called machine customers, things like AI agents acting as buyers, to influence or participate in $30 trillion worth of purchases by 2030."
Machine Customer Purchases
Pending
Cloudflare and Coinbase established the X42 Foundation in September 2025 to promote agent payments on the web.
"In September 2025, Cloudflare and Coinbase announced the X42 Foundation, an initiative meant to drive a shared open approach to agent payments across the web."
X42 Adoption
Correct
At the time of filming, X42 had processed over 1.2 million transactions with $400,000 in volume in the preceding 24 hours.
"For example, at the time of shooting, we can see there have been over 1.2 million X42 transactions with $400,000 in volume over the last 24 hours."
X42 Transactions
Pending
X42 activity saw a surge of over 10,000% in October, reaching a peak of over 680,000 daily transactions.
"In October, X42 activity jumped by more than 10,000% over a 4-week span with a record daily high of over 680,000 transactions recorded on the last day of October."
X42 Activity Surge
Pending
Google's AP2 protocol now supports an X42 extension, enabling agents to make USDC purchases.
"Google recently announced that their agent payments protocol, AP2, added support for an X42 extension via Coinbase's facilitator, so agents can make USDC purchases."
Google Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) and X42
Correct
The adoption of the proposed ERC8004 standard is expected to significantly advance Ethereum-based AI agents.
"Now ERC8004 is early. It's still a proposal, but adoption would take things up a notch for Ethereumbased AI agents to put it mildly."
ERC8004 Standard Adoption
Pending
X42 trading volume decreased by over 90% and daily transactions by more than half by November, following an earlier surge.
"Well, since then activity has cooled off a lot to put it politely. Recent rundowns going into November show trading volume down over 90% from the peak and daily transactions lower by more than half."
X42 Transaction Volume Decline
Correct